The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530 - 1688: A Reader in English Urban History

by Jonathan Barry

Overview

The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582051300
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/12/1990
Series:	Readers In English Urban History
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 1 Introduction 2 Urban development in England and Wales in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 3 English pre-industrial urban economies 4 Household size and structure in early-Stuart Cambridge 5 Social problems in Elizabethan London 6 Change and stability in seventeenth-century London 7 Residential patterns in pre-industrial cities: Some case studies from seventeenth-century Britain 8 Civic mentality and the environment in Tudor York 9 'The Ramoth-Gilead of the Good': Urban change and political radicalism at Gloucester 1540-1640 10 Newcastle and the nation: The seventeenth-century experience 11 The corporate town and the English State: Bristol's 'little businesses' 1625-1641